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mi' UH Ittxfc, Idii«r wi PuMaler. McHEKRY, ILLTUOir THE VOICE OF THE MOUNTAINS. BT JAKES O. CLARK. ~\l TI ! >• «** the mountain stand, , fBUorit:, wonderfnl, ami grand. ' ^Looking out acri-si the land •„•»•• Whoa tbe golden linht. -was falling OB distant dome and SPIN. And I heard a low voice calling, •Come up higher, come up higbW-- the lowland and t h e mii% - . , the miat of earth-desire, •*"£••"• 4 v the vain pursuit of , m tbe altitude of self. Wgfflfchw, DO ap higher, come up higher-- Othlnk not that vre are cold, Vhongh eternal snows have crowned U1 /•Think not that we nre old, " IftonPhthecger, dJsaBOuiid ub ; "'V, • KTnderneftth our breasts of aniyir V 1BilTerfotmtaisi« sing and flow; We reflect the young day'a blomu | We receive thenew-bor;-, at orals ; On our ragged, rock-mailed JOWWL - > And restore the hungry lands f .JWith on* rivers and our mmla," te who conquers inward foe ( ; 11 the pain of battle knows, 1 * • iAn<l has earned his ealtri repon,U: ;jr^oiint,lf>aK nr« the race?, n the cycles took their placetf.:-'. •>';. 7e were groaning to he free TpS?' torn our chains below the ^ 1111 we heard the sun--onr sir#-* 'ailing, calling, 'Come up higbMb*' nd we burst qmr prison bars, And tram oat the mist and flrtt ocean's wild HubnceMSs ...... . AND tbe elemental wares, " •' F# arose and bathed our facesfe^v' '• « . J>n n«nW<;ht «.i*l t-ha 3tRr3.*fe,'r; ; ^'JLNCUU •••*# '£ AN OATH OF REVENGE, U ! ' *5 ve ad rapped taine, and I wiUwt Vl j he whispered.! The sleigh had hardly started when AWp. &tan$ a better phauce bf get-}1 can do to maJce the Grand Duke Michael hurried up, q»r fponey U y<m **»(. before you [this hour easier," said Walter, tor he .,<# » . « - -! * ; -- --. •«.»» »v . -- ;w V*FE H' \\ i Walter Holmsby paced up and D&FTA In his store, looking ruin IT. the face, and vowing revenge upon the crafty counsel] or who had duped and cheated him- Bates, his partner, was far away, In some unknown hiding place, with his ill-gotten gains in bis grasp, and Holmsby was reviling hitaself for his blindness and stupidity. He was nearly crazed with his misery and rage, when an elderly man entered, closing the door behind him, and ad­ vancing with an air of cordial greet­ ing. "Wait." he said, "I have just heard--Boy, boy!" he cried, looking full in the HA^NRD face. "It is not so bad as that?" •'It's ruin and disgrace!" said the young man, bitterly. "It may be ruin, bat I cannot he- { words "of comfort lieve it is disgrace. Tell me all," said iifted to his proved the old gentleman, taking a chair, axid motioning Walter to another one. "I have been a fool," said Walter Holmsby, forcing himself to speak calmly--'trusting a man who owes hisjvery l ife to me . When I was in Vicksburg, in the fall of '67, I met Gordon BATES, a roan old enough to be my fathei>jit the hotel, where he was lying at aeath's door with yellow fever, 1 had been down buying cot- tho old gentleman. "Go out of to WET for a month or TWO;<WTYI}STBIRSCORCII» ing heat lasts." ^ ' 'I don't know but I could leave now/' Walter said, musingly, "I have half a mind to go to Europe." I "To Europe!" cried Mr. Graham. ; £*I l«r®nfcw1for 4UST.,«TWO«> objects, Miv*;Graham," was the reply to this Exclamation. "One is to redeem my (rood name by paying my debts, and fbhe other Is Tor revenge upon Bates. JRIL find him if he is above ground, find I'll have my money again, or it Will go hard with him." , ,, . "If that IS what vou are going to Europe for, I WOULD advise you to ^postpone your holiday, and stick to your counting-house," said the old gentleman dryly. "Send a detective after your partner it you plea-e, but do not grow melodramatic about re­ venge." ; He took his old friend's advice for j pamphlet the time, leaving, the Europeap^trip for the future, and goiug into the country for a real rest. • Nestling down among A cluster of hills/ fifteen miles from any railway Station, was a farmhouse where WALTER Holmsby's mother had been born* and lived until the rich New York merchant, in a summer pil­ grimage, fell in love with her pretty face, and carried her away to his city home, where she lived only two short years, and died before she was 20. The old grandparents had coaxed the boy from his father many and many a summer, and now,Jweary and heart- sore, he thought there was no such 1 spot where he could have such per­ fect rest and peace, as down IN the little New England valley. Three days of rest passed without any adventures, and "VIOLET!" the dying man said, WITH toager sugbUca&ion in his eyes. Six mflKths niter, when the snow lay upon the hills, Walter iHolmsby came once more to the little village where heliad spent his summer holi­ day comforting the orphan. He had oleaisd h*r father 's name , as far as i t lav in his pjwer to do so, and he more than fulfilled his promise to the dyfng, when he made Violet his wife, giving her true, honorable love, and knowing he had won her whole pure heart.--New York News. •m.^W ' l.1' 1 1 lf 1 fl* Ml-: HOW ALEXANDER DIEO. True Story of the Hilling of the Cur. A pamphlet purporting to give the true detail* of the as-assination of Alexander 11., of Russia, has been recently published in Europe by Nik- •hirfsco DISTORTED and wfcita "uitvuSl" law CaMtud, uaiug tlio QUU*s pet name, "are you wounded?" "My son, oh! where is my son?" moaned the Czar. A few minutes later lie died. Meantime Count Lorls-MellkoiT sat consulting with his colleagues as to the proclamation of the constitution. The first explosion sounded in the room like distant thunder. "What was that?" asked a min­ ister. "Nothing that we need fear," re­ plied Count Lorls. "I assume the responsibility for to-day. Everything is quiet and safe, and the CTGTT runs no risk whatever." Nevertheless,the Count sent out Gen. Fedoroff to as­ certain whether he was, weiL The General, sharing the Count's assur­ ance, walked away leisurely, hum­ ming a song. He bad gone but a few steps when the second and heavier olaus Notowich. The. title of the explosion came. The shock broke the is "Czar Alexander 11L and His Entourage." The part of it relating to the tragedy of March 1, 1881, tells the following story: In the last days of February. 1881. St ̂ Petersburg was in a fever of un­ rest The people talked and acted as if calamity pervaded the air. On February 28 there was a family din­ ner at the imperial palace. During the conversation the Czar became ir­ ritated bv a frivolous remark by one of the grand dukes , and reproved him openly. As the present Czar made some excuse for the embarrassed young MATH* Alexander IL com­ manded: "Silence! Nobody asked for your Opinion. You would do better to oc­ cupy your mind with affairs of state. To-morrow you may reign." After the dinner Count Loris-Mili- the energ«tic ! KOIT appeared and requested Princess young city merchant was wondering j Juriewski to persuade the Czar not why farmers did not cut their own . tp attend a certain military narade throats from sheer lack of excite-1 0n the following day, but to defer the ^ENT, when wandering one. morning I review in deference to the impression some two miles from the farm-house, | that on March L an attempt would be windows and rattled the contents of the room. Every minister sprang from his seat "A carriagel Harness!" shouted. Count Loris, his Hps white and his arms swinging wildly. Before the carriage came, Capt Koch, spattered with blood and staggering, threw open the door. He had Just come from the quay of the Katharina canal. "His Majesty is mortally wounded," gasped Koch. He tried to say more, but his words were unintelligible. Count Loris-Melikoff's white lace be­ came scarlet, then purple, and he sank unconscious to the floor. ton, and was waiting to close a large yond the childish trouble he had im in the shady paths of A grove, he met his first adventure. It was an interesting one, for, sit­ ting at the foot of a great oak tree, he found A pretty child ' CRYING bit­ terly. At least he thought it Was A child until touching the golden head bent low in sorrow he spoke some Then the face tp be that of a young girl, 18 or 19, fresh and fair as a wood violet, and pretty in spite of its tears. "Pardon me," he said, lifting his hat "I did not mean to intrude. I heard you sobbing, and thought I might be of use:" "No one can help me," she an­ swered, the tears falling again, "Papa, is dying!" The young man stood silent,shocked by tne revelation of a grief so far be- made upon his life. A little later the Czar informed the Grand Duchess Alexandra Josephowna that he would not attend the parade. '-Loiis has condemned rod to im­ prisonment," were his words. An Interesting Occasion. No true woman ever tires of going to a wedding. Whatever her own matrimonial experience may have been, the spectacle of another's ven­ ture seems to inspire her- She is quite sure that nothing but happi- nest will result from an experiment grown so familiar that it no longer seems daring. "Beatrice will not grant for an instant that it is ever a pity to spoil a good bachelor. She ignores altogether the .possibility that the groom will prove a bad hus­ band. She is confident that every sweet maid of her acquaintance Is "How unfortunate!" exclaimed tbe ; good enough for the best man on Grand Duchess. "To-morrow my j earth, and sure to make him happy. contract, with no other business in hand. Hearing that a stranger was so ill in the RO^M next my own, I went into him, having seen yellow fever in New Orleans when I was on duty there during the war. I nursed him, and finding he was poor, lent him money. He had a relapse, and was fearfully ill. I stayed with him, and when he was better , brpught him here at my own expense. You will say that 1 was infatuated, but I did believe in the man. He seemed so grateful, and such a gcod business man, that I taok him into 'yhe count­ ing-house, and at the end of a year into partnership. It must have bee agined. 'But cannot I be of any use?" he asked. "Have you a physician?" . "Yes, he has just gone. He told lie--and I came here to--to try to get quiet before I go again to--" and le sobs choked the rest ! son was to be presented to you in his J new capacity of Officer of Ordin- ! ance." I "Humph! 1 never thought of that," ' replied the Czar. "In that case I ! will not obey Loris, for nothing in | the world could- induce me to cause you needless disappointment" On March 1 the Czar worked with Count Loris-Melikoff until 11 a. m., and signed the ukase concerning the introduction of the constitution. H6 then went to bis wife, embraced her, and promised to be cautious during his absenee. As he would leave his little daughter Katherina caught him by the cojit, crying: "Papa, you have not given me a single kiss to-day." "What a terrible creditor you are," said the Czar, laughingly. "You do NO^> trust me at all. Well, give me drink, into^ 'American I this season one trial package will to any address in U. S. FREE. If in make thirty words from the let- bontained in R-O-Y-A-L M-E-A-D Ire almost certain to receive one of raluable articles which are to be to each one of the first ninety-nine Has your father been ill long?" VPTIR kiss, and may it bring me luck." ""R " XT I8 The Czar rode out in a close car- that QU8E> surrounded by Cossacks of the the port11"^* THE imperial patty CROSSED, who tecTHEIR WAY TO THE PARADE ground, attract** Malaja badowaja street, under royal pfICTL A MINE HAD been laid by the soon after that he began to use TH^NA IN the United States able to send KOF thirty words or more. Besides FRFETJJW"1 sending THEJWLTTUI*!. 'The girl looked up with a startled And so she beams her benediction on the passing bride" She rejoices with her when the ceremony is safely over. For accidents win happen to brides as well as other mortals, and any hitch in the proceedings brings dismay to every feminine onlooker. Some of these mishaps are not with­ out a touch of the ludicrous. One bride, for instance, not long ago, lost the heel of one of her satin slippers as SHE entered the church, and was literally put in a rather unfortunate hobble. Another in her agitatiou quite forgot to remove the black bootees she wore to protect her white satin slippers, and sailed up the broad aisle quite unconscious of the odd effect of her feet as they stole in and out beneath her petti­ coat But Beatrice sees nothing in such things to laugh at Her sympa­ thies are with the heroine of the occasion, and when she draws a breath of relief when the irrevoca­ ble vows are finally spoken, and smiles upon Benedick, who has duti­ fully accompanied her and is think­ ing his own thoughts. They differ the QUERISTS, although as yet its existence | radically from hers. Out of hts large SFESS' be wonder in her great-blue eyea "Holmsby! Why, you MOLT father's partner." I t ' she had fired a pistol in his face Walter Holmsby could not have started more violently. "Is your father Gordon Bates?" "Yes, and I am Violet Did he ever tell you he had a daughter? You will come now and see him. How pleased he will be!" she said lnno- ceutly. ,#HE thinks you ^RE the noblest best truest man in the world. And I know I have to thank you for his life when he was in Vicksburg. HE wrote me about that Will you come now?" Mechanically Walter followed h«<r r, •, % 1 ii-;. : * ulations, for, you see. in little more than 18 months he has ruined me." "Not entirely. I have been among your father's old friends, and we are going to pull you through." "Mr. Graham!" faltered the young merchant "Pshaw! It is a debt remember. You will pay me all again some time. Will you put the whole matter into my hands'?'! "Gladly." "COme, then, we will sift the whole matter?" Hours of the most careful inves­ tigation did not serve to make the complications any more satisfac­ tory, but Mr. Graham had spoken for several of the youuz man's friends when he promised to "pull him through." Walter Holmsby was a man who made friends, and kept them. His rather Quixotic attachment, to his recent partner had puzzled {heavily. some of his more cautious friends; It was very hard to realize that a but when the crash came there were few months had left only this wreck . many who owned in their hearts that! of Gordon Bates. All the manly they too had been deceived In Gor-! energy was gone from the attenuated don Bates. He was a middle-aged man, senting himself as a widower with one daughter, a mere child, residing with an aunt in the country. Per­ fectly gentlemanly in manner, evinc­ ing culture and a refined taste, he was also a keen man of business; and at first tbe firm seemed to have taken a new impetus when the old sigu of Holmsby & Son, that had remained stationary long after Holmsby the . first slept in Greenwoo-d, was re­ placed by that of Holmsby & Bates. THE senior member, but younger man, being yet a little under thirty, had allowed the reins cf business to fall from his own hands into those of his partner. Bates seemed actually to like all the ory details that had J been only duty TO Walter, and as' money seemed flowing in under the new management, the young mer­ chant allowed himself rather too much leisure, too many afternoon drives, aad evening parties, that left him weary in the mornings. He was drifting toward the vortex of .dissipation that swallowed up so many young idlers, when he was Startled by the sudden disappearance OF: bis partner, into an investigation OJF his own affairs. • It was a horribly sharp lesson that night him back from pleasure and and ems NQF> suspected. Tne people along enthusi5 RFUTE cheered the Czar as usual, GORGE#* H'-3 recovered from the fit of mel- royaloi;h(1V LNTO which the apprehensions • Alft famllv and tninist^>ra ha/1 HIS family and ministers bad THROWN him. The review was undis­ turbed by accident The Czar re­ ceded and congratulated the ord- nar>ee officer, sou of the Grand Duch­ ess Alexander, and sent to the Grand Duchess word that all had GONE well, and that the apprehended attacK upon him appeared to have teen cotem- plated by nobody. After the review tbe Czar passed a tew minutes with Ills old aunt, the Grand Duchess Katharina Michailowna; thence he proceeded homeward. Tbe coachman, at his command, drove through the less frequented streets, where the least danger from the nihilists was appre­ hended. At the quay of the Katha­ rina Canal a young man disguised as experience of mankind, he is pretty well convinced that no man is really fit to marry a truly|nice girl. And as he meets Beatrice's radient expres­ sion, he looks into his hat and blushes for the sex that can never by any pos- sibility be fully understood by women. Annoying Corrections. If tbe majority of people talked, less, the peace of so many households would not be disturbed by petty dis­ agreements. Unasked for advice, un­ necessary questions and comment, are sure to create trouble. Strong-willed folk can live togethei in peace only when each enjoys perfect liberty of action. The spirit of contradiction is a fruitful cause of quarrels. There is a household fiend with a memory for dates and details, who can never sit still and hear papa say he went down town on Monday at eight, with- a peasant threw the first bomb, j out correcting the statement with , There was a terrific report The im- the remark that the hour was half- as she led the way to a pleasant cot- i perial carriage lav IN ruins on the ! past lf mamma happens to allude ^ ...J ^ . J' to Cousin Jenny's visit as having oc­ curred last Thursday, this wasplike impersonation of accuracy interposes with the statement that it was Fri­ day, not Thursday, which brought Cousin Jan& A dozen times a day exasperating frictions are caused by needless corrections of this sort re­ ferring to matters where exactness is not really imperative, the affairs in question being unimportant, and no violation of truth being for an in­ stant intended. A manifest bit of household wisdom is to refrain from criticism of food. The sauce may not be quite piquant enough, th« salad may be wilted, but in the nanxs ' of decency say nothing about it in either case . Silence is golden in | nearly every instance where a defect j obtains in the home economy. To Alex-! abstain from superfluous apologies is ! also tne habit ot discretion. There tsge, and up stairs to a darkened [ pavement The Cossack who had sat chamber, where a man Jay, sleeping J beside the coachman was dead. Two of the mounted guards were lifeless on the ground, and not far away lay the body of a little boy with the basket of meat that he had carried , scattered in fragments round him. i frame, the thin white hands crossed The Czar, pale but sound, emerged repre- J feebly over the counterpane: the feat- J from the wreck of his carriage- Gen­ eral Dworjewski, who had driven up ures were follow, ̂ HE eyes sunken, the hair as white as snow. He had aged 20 years, and as his young partner looked at him the bitterness left his heart and only a deep pity filled it "There is a letter for you," Violet whispered. "Father wrote it before he was so very ill. I will get it" She brought it and placed it in his hands, and then sat down softly by the bedside, while he went to the window for light Evidently the let­ ter was intended to meet his eyes '• J*"'-$• after the writer bad closed his own I ander. ui;on the world forever, and as he j read, Walter felt only compassion and J forgiveness. | The writer implored him to belieye there had been no intentional fraud. Carried away by the wild mania lor speculation, Gordon Bates had also been influenced by the hope of lifting his young benefactor into sudden af­ fluence. He had used the n ime of j the firm, really believing he would I shower wealth upon both, and repay his debt of gratitude by making Walter Holmsby a millionaire. And when the crash came, it was with no ill-earned wealth he had run away, but penniless and despairing. FTI wili leave you blameless," he wrote. "You have Keen duped and cheated. Let me take all the blamte, you read right, to in his sleigh immediately, apnroached the Czar ON foot, saluted, and begged his Majesty to hasten with him from the spot "My place is by the side of the wounded," responded the Czar firmly, as he turned toward the bodies of the men who were stretched on the red­ dened snow. The crowd had caught the murderer and he was brought by two Cossacks to the Czar. Your name!" commanded luer. i «».v uuuiv VI uicvignwu. The man gave an assumed name. should seldom be the occasion for "Are you not ashamed of yourself?" I apology in the household, where all The man returned no answer. As I would do well and widely to B6 Con- Idleness, but bitter as it was, he JESSED it when his friends by ! only when I am dead, and timely aid AN4 advice started him again, with the name OF Bates erased from the firm. The only danger that threatened ' Walter was. that be would become a asere money-loviug, money-making T^achine, for he toiled early and late. His best iriend and adviser,, Mr. : Graham, remonstrated at last , "Holmsby, you are killing yaur- I "Let me clear myself* dear friend," JAE young man answered,"and repay the Czar was about to enter General Dworjewski's sleigh he asked an offi­ cer: "Are you wounded?" "No, thank God!" was the reply. "Do not thank God too soon!" cried a man, disguised as a peasant, from the crowd, and a tomb fell at tbe Czar's feet. For a moment all was hidden IQ~fire and smoke. When tbe air cleared the* Czar was lying in a pool of blood. "I atu oold," he sighed, as he struggled to a sitting postureR He was spattered with blood, OUR UNCLEAN FICTION. mark by notches the distance from to the first phalanx and all sue* ceedlng ones. This bamboo rod is PRESERVED. Every stranger is com­ pelled to submit to this measure­ ment When they return after a protracted absence the rod Is applied as mentioned, and their identity es­ tablished as a friend, a new-comer or a foe. Capt Cupet on his return to Anam was always remeasured. He says that a similar method Is prac­ ticed in the Laos provinces. ̂ ST Louis Post-Dispatch. ~*I RRFAS/ISESCI'TOD C*ri American Writer*. The literature of America, in its beginning, was essentially English, because its writers and its readers were of the English race. Its found­ ers were Irving and Cooper and the Transcendentalists of New England. The traditions and methods of V THE mother country prevailed, even after our American revival of letters had created a national sentiment in literature. It is only within the last few years that any departure from them has been attempted. We have R^PW a number of writers, male and female, of varying degrees of infe­ riority, who call themselves a sdhool, and whose efforts are devoted to foster­ ing luimorality. How are we to ac- count for this phenomenon, for which the history of our language affords no precedent or parallel, unless it be in the corrupt literature of the Bes- toration? Does it not occur to us, first of all, to SEE£ for a like cause- afore ign influence? In my judgment, this is the true explanation--A foreign influence com­ ing through two channels. It seems indisputable that a principal cause must be found in the fact that in the centers of thought and population in this country,'the Anglo-Saxon modes of thought and belief have been for the time superseded by a sort of cos­ mopolitan sentiment with a large Gallic constituent. The tremendous influx of foreigners of other races than our own has created a hybrid popu­ lation, and unsettled conviction on almost every subject. But it will be said, the argument is defective be­ cause a large portion of our immi­ grant population is Teutonic. It must BE borne in mind that the alle­ gation of moral superiority applies es­ pecially to the Anglo-Saxon people and literature. It is by tbe Anglo~ Saxons, I submit, that the old German institutions and characteristics HAVE been best preserved and developed. It is also true that the Tuetonic as well as other immigrants are drawn from tbe lower classes of population, and are not, therefore, thoroughly representative. It may be admitted that the objection to the argument is in a measure valid. But who will stultify himself by denying to our foreign population a tremendous- in­ fluence in literature, as in everything else? This is one source of foreign in­ fluence. The other is described in the word Paris. A prominent man of letters said to me recently that in his judgment the French were al­ most entirely responsible for our im­ moral Action. There are ten thou­ sand American residents in Paris. Thousands more annually visit that ailuring_ capital Paris sets the fash- Huge Pile of Confederate Money i o n . T h e s e A m e r i c a n s r e a d i l y y i e l d _ ® . . . . , , . . . . . to its fascinations, and become con- Eighty million dollars in bills were verts to its ways of acting and think- shipi ed to Atlanta yesterday, the ing. Pilgrims returning home bring I mammoth packages of money filling with them the Parisian ideas. If they j TTVE ^AR^E dry goods boxes are only ladies and gentlemen, it is Big Enongti. A correspondent of the Green Bay says that a man was brought to trial in NEW York State abeut fifteen YEA^. ago on a charge of burglary. The evidence went to show that, he bad entered the dwelling in question through a certain cellar window, and the case seemed to be going against him till his lawyer brought into court the frame of the window. Actual measurement showed that Its dimen­ sions were nine by thirteen inches, and the prisoner, as any one could see, WLS a man of nearly the average size. This sensational bit of evidence, it was plain, produced an immediate impression upon the court and the jury, and the defendant's counsel at once asked the Judge to order a ver­ dict of acquittal, on the ground that it was physically impossible that the accused could have committed the burglary in the manner alleged. The court asked the district at­ torney if he was prepared to main­ tain that entrance had been effected in any other way than through the window in question. Tbe attorney answered in the negative, and tbe Judge seemed on the point of doing as the lawyer for the defence had re­ quested. At that moment the district at­ torney rose, and in a commanding voice told tbe prisoner to stand up The prisoner obeyed. "Hold up your right hand as high as you can reach," said the district attorney. It was done. "Put your left hand down by your side." That was done. Then, while every one was wonder- JFHg what the unusual proceeding meant, the district attorney seized the window-frame, threw it over the prisoner's uplifted arm, and with a sudden jerk brought it clean over the shoulders; then, with both hands, be pulled it down over the man's body, talcing off a button or two and calling out an exclamation of pain or anger. The next instant the frame lay about the prisoner's feet unbroken. The court declined to order an ac­ quittal, and in due course the jury brought in a verdict of guilty. stantly gentle and courteous. Mortal Insignificance. After all, nobody Counts for very much in this world. When he re­ ceived the news ot Senator Stanford's death C. P. Huntington said that his death "would make no difference in the management and affairs of the Southern and Central Pacific Rail roads," of which he was one of the principal owners. Yet Senator Stan­ ford was worth at least $35,000,000, and his' AN(* WAS C0D8'dered a very important uniform was in tatters. Aronnd him lay ten officers and soldiers, some dead, the rest dying. The uninjured sol­ diers carried the Czar to a sleigh. this, believe I tried to do right, to ; am. cold," he sighed again, as benefit you and bless you, when m'y L THEV laid him among the robes. A hands were working out your ruin." soklier covered the Czar's face with a There was much more, and Walter's I HANDKERCHIEF. The young Count ey.E» were not dry as he folded tbe Gendrikoff mounted behind, covered money you and my other friends bed-letter and stepped softly to the side. Tbe long sleep was over at last,, and the heavy lids lifted themselves slowly. There was no start of sur­ prise when Walter Holmsby spoke gently and kindly. Death was too near for that ' Only the * wan face lighted in A tmder §MLL£ 'V:; VTV'S "4: * • & . <• , <s fit 'v. the Czar's head with his helmet, and held his shoulders. Capt Koulebia- kien, severely wounded, knelt and steadied the body, "You are wounded, my Kontebia- Jrleo?" inquired the Czar faintly,* , "My God!" exclaimed the Cajftalh, weeping, "what WAIT TO your TF *• LESTY'S sufferings!" • ' . T • . V . -K ; factor in the affairs of his railroad companies while be was alive It was Henry Ward Beecher, we believe, who said: ' If you want to know how much you will be missed when you die poke your finger- in a bowl of water, pull it up, and look at the ho E."--Charleston News and Courier. WH£N a young man calls on a girl some time, and stops off suddenly, it is not because he proposed and was refused he is afraid if he keeps oh, he will marry her. IK a family group at a pienje, the father always dren, but tj her child proud of his chll seems proud of father too. probable that this will appear most strikingly In a certain un-American and Gallic freedom in the range of conversation. If they are artists, a decided preference for unflinching nudity in art will be perceptible, lf they are writers, they will laud the liberality of French sentiment and long for the freedom of Balzac and Zola. I have heard it asserted that it is possible to trace directly to Paris tbe responsibility for all our erotic writers, who, with accurate knowl­ edge of our national conditions, have begun at a propitious time the imita­ tion of French romance. The condition cannot continue. Our capacity for assimilation is only temporarily exceeded by the tre­ mendous increase of foreign popula­ tion. Moreover, we shall lelieve the situation by judicious legislation, if necessary, and that in tbe near fu­ ture. The Anglo-Saxon character and sentiment will again prove them­ selves stronger than the French and all others. At the heart we are still sound. American institutions, a higher education, and the geneial ad­ vance of civilization, will triumph over these temporary evils; and the pitiful pissimist and eroticist will lose their audience and find their oc­ cupation gone.--Joshua W. Caldwell, in the New England Magazine. Satan a Landlord. There is but one spot on the earth's surface, as far as "the curious man" knows, that has been really and truly willed, deeded,and bequeathed to his satanic majesty. This spot lies four and a half a mile south of Helsln- fors, Finland. A few years ago Lars Huolarinen died In the little town of Pielisjarvi in the above-named coun­ try, leaving considerable property in the shape ot real estate. How he had come in possession of so much land no one seemed to know, but as and mak­ ing in all more than a drayload. None of the bills are current, however, as they represent "nothing on God's earth now and naught in the waters below It" They were Confederate bills of the rarest type. The huge pile of genuine Confederate money was shipper here from Richmond, Va., the former capital of the Con­ federacy, and is now the property of Charles D. Barker, of this city. The money is of every denomination issued by the departed nation, and IN the big collection are bills of the rarest type. There are bills issued during every year of the war. Thous­ ands of them are very valuable as relics, but the great number of them MI^ Barker has on hand will make them so common as to bring but lit­ tle on the market This $80,000,000 of confederate money was all along supposed to have been destroyed. This is undoubtedly the largest lot of Confederate money in the world-- Atlanta Constitution. ' RFIF FROMLO.OOOTOL.OBO.OOO YEARS. Snbcteatlal KTMMM at PAFEO ttos -- Wapiti XxtaMlon 91 Vonndc^w Merit--Wfeaa: *NRTLA!NGF LA VALUABLE. The mark of publio whieh best indicates the met character 91 an article for put »the evidence shown by the of enlargement of business connected with the production -- e Kickai "" Conn., owning and manufacturer the original formulas of the Indians the famous medicines celebrated tribe,have foond& i to make a substantial enlarge their factory by the purchi a six-story brick building, oont about, thirty thousand square floor space, for conducting the mous and still increasing supplying their remedies to the; This growth has all been with! WUUWWM WJLIJIX PUUKVWVU 1 Kic Utes and Navajos. No one has ever been known to get the better of a 'Navajo Indian in trade. Navajos are as superstitious as they are shrewd, and have a mortal fear of a camera. Nothing will in­ duce them to pose for their pictures. The Utes are equally difficult to photo­ graph. "What are you going to do with that?" asked a handsome Ute on tne San Juan River of a Salt Lake Trib­ une correspondent "We want some Ute pictures for the Wo Id's Fair to put with THE^ white man's and the Navajos." "That's well DNOU^H for the white man and Navajos," replied the Ute, "but it's bad medicine for us. As soon as a Ute has his picture taken he gets sick and dies. We do not want that tool in our country. It is bad medi­ cine. " Nothing will induce a Navajo to he was a very bad citizen, it wasgen-1 touch a FL-h, much less eat it Swing erally admitted that he was in league { a fish in the face of a Navajo and the with Wihtahausu (Satan), and that j bravest will run. Who will explain? they had had many business deals with each other. This somewhat startling opinion was verified wheu old Huolarinen ! died, for, upon opening his will, the | magistrate found a certified warranty J deed enclosed therein which deeded | to Satan all of his (Huolarinen's) earthly possessions. The will was to the same effect "Take the Cake." Concerning this expression, which has been much discussed of late, the following, from Bartlett and Coyne's "Scenery and Antiquities ot Ireland," (184,) describing a dance in front of a shebeen, is an interesting illustra­ tion: "A churn dish stuck into the earth The family have repeatedly tried to supported on its flat end a cake, break the will, but so far, have been unsuccessful; thus the records plainly show that his sulphuric majesty has a legal right and title to some excel­ lent grounds in the near vicinity of Helsingfors. Tbe simple people in the neighbor­ hood have changed the course of the road which formerly skirted the Huo­ larinen homestead, and declared that they would not enter the possession of Satan & Co. for all the money that three such estates would bring. Curious Mode ol* Identification. The scleuce of modern anthropog- raphy is constantly increasing its resources by introducing new meas­ urements of various parts of the body, particularly among tbe criminal class. The measurement of the hand and fingers is now considered of vast im­ portance in establishing personal identity. It Is certainly curious, in view of this fact, to know that a similar process has JAEEN in vogue which was to becolne tbe prize of the best dancer. The contention was carried on for a long time with ex­ traordinary spirit: at length the com petitors yielded their claims to a young man, the son of a rich farmer in the neighborhood, who, taking the cake, placed it gallantly in the lap of a pretty girl, to whom I understood he was about to be married."--Notes and Queries. A Fair Copenhagen Carpenter* A lady in Copenhagen has been officially registered as a carpenter and joiner. She expects to do more than superihtend workmen, and, in order to perfect herself in making furniture, she has found her way to this country in search of new ideas. past ten years; and this is the th time the Kickapoo Indian Medicine*, have outgrown their quarters since | first introduction of the Kickapoo RE' edies among the white people. T[ business has grown in a ratio of on< a hundred; or in other words they now doing annually one hundred TLN^! the amount of business they did 1 first year. Merit a Necessary Baals. y •£ This success resulted mainly ft - the intrinsic merit of the KiekaK Remedies; since their introduction t r largely attained with comparaii' little or no advertising, and that prift cipally consisting of parties of Im with their interpreters traveling from town to town erecting their camps and showing the people just what the Kickapoo Remedies were, and thteir use. It was only within the past two years that the Kickapoo Remedies have been advertised in the newspapers, and then only at first in certain sections .after their sale had been established, so as to keep the merits oL the Kickapoo Remedies before the PEOPLE. Tnis newspaper advertising, however, has been of much benefit to the sale of these famous modicines, and has been LARGELY in EFFECTING th® need of additional facilities. Many people who were not reached before are now using the Kickapoo Indian Remedies, and some really astonishing cures have been wrought by these sim- Ele compounds of roots, barks erbs. When Kewapaper Advertising Pays, Healy & Bigelow, the agents for the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Com- any, appcaciate and indorse moat _ leartily the value of the newspaper advertising for a meritorious artiole, and say: "We find that newspaper readers are very discriminating, and inclined to be skeptical at first, but after you have established confidence in your goods and the people find that your statements are reliable then your business is bound to increase and ex­ tend." The Kickapoo Remedies eonsist ol only five articles, all of which are purely the product of roots, barks, gums", leaves and flowers. They are absolutely free from mineral or other deleterious substances, as attested to after a chemical analysis by R E Crittendon, Professor of Physiological Chemistry at Yale College. Kickapoo Indian Sagwa is a blood* liver and stomach remedy. Kickapoo Indian Oil is a quick cure for all painflf stiffness, soreness, rheumatism and the like. Kickapoo Indian Cough Cure, as its name implies, is for throat and LUIW difficulties. Kjekapoo Indian Salve & an excellent^F medy for cuts, wounds, sores, eczema, etc., and Kickapoo In­ dian Worm Killer is a harmless and absolutely certain remedy for those troubles so frequently met with among children, viz: Seat, pin and stomaon worms. The Sagwa retails for $1 • bottle; the Cough Cure 50 oeate; and the other remedies at 25 cents a bottle or package. There is probably not a drug store in the United States to-day where the Kickapoo remedies are not obtainable, and we are pleased to say that Messrib Healy & Bigelow have published in this paper, and will continue doing some really marvelous cures effected by the Kickapoo Indian Remedies, and also unimpeachable evidence of the ab­ solute vegetable purity of these simple yet effectual compounds, that, as some one HAS said, bring "Long Life and Good Health." ..... . UNLUCKY THIRTEEN. Back to I:V imm - • .1 * among savag nize their fr Cupet report! Southern An rod between tbe ring tinge vade their ter ho thus rccog- foe*. Capt. ohabitants of thin bamboo finger and who in- hicb they MISTRESS--Come, BRIDGET how | much longer are you going to be fill­ ing that pepper-box? Bridget (a fresh importation from where they don't use pepper-castors)--Shure, ma'am, and It'smeself can't say how long It'll be takm' me to git all this stuff in the thing through the little holes in tbe top. ; TIIE broad highway that leads to destruction is the route of all eylL 1 - - -r - - f - :r' A Svperatltten Said to Extend King Arthur's Time. The superetitioa of thirteen at table being unlucky, it is said, extends away back to the time of King Arthur. When the good British King founded the famous round table he requested Merlin, the enchanter, to arrange the seats. Merlin arranged one set of seats to represent the apostles; twelve were for the faithful adherents of Jesus Christ, and the thirteenth for the trait­ or Juaas. The first were never occu­ pied save by the knights distinguished for their achievements, and when a death occurred amonp them the seat remained vacant until a knight sur- passing him in heroic and warlike at­ tainments should be considered worthy to fill the place. If an unworthy knight sought the vacant chair he was re­ pelled by some magic power. The thirteenth seat was never occupied but once. The story goes that s haughty and insolent Saracen knight sat Sown upon it and was immediately swallowed up by the earth. Ever after it was known as the "perilous seat." and, brave as the celebrated knights of the round table are said to have been, not one ever had the courage to sit on the thirteenth ohair, ana th* superstition against it still survives. Notes of Current Events. RUDOLPH HEINS, 22 years old, waa drowned while bathing in the Miasisj eippi. MRS. PHCEBE OWEN, aged 72, a life­ long resident of Indiana, died at her home near Lincolnville, Ind. LIEUT. CLARK, U. S. A., aged 8V son of Dr. Clark, of Baltimore, Md.t was drowned at Fort Custer, Mont. He was married about a year ago to Elsie Clemens, of St. Louis. THE new directory of Toledo, whloh will come out in a day or two, contains 49,092 names, showing the city's popu- lation to be more than 144,000. This la a gain of 40,000 in three years. THE Carnegie rod, nail, and rail mills at Pittsburg have closed down un­ expectedly. Supt. Wrigley says the plants will resume in a few weeks after necessary repairs have beeiixnade, but the 800 employes are fearful of a long shut-down. Miss LTJTDS LKSMIE, of Seymour, Ind., aged about 16 years, an only daughter, fearing a threatened punish­ ment for an alleged indiscretion, took* a fatal dose of arsenic. C^MrtoM her mother of what she had done, saying that she preferred death to being1 whiDDed. - *5S"S*'CM;. y* iv r ' > V 3- "H W»\"' •Urn tX .>,r . % - - w